Win the first team by making full use of strategies such as hit-and-run
“Kyushun Miyazaki Baseball Games” with Seibu held at Ikimenomori Sports Park in Miyazaki City on the 22nd. This is the first foreign game in the camp, and we can see how Softbank coach Hiroshi Fujimoto, who has been appointed commander from this season, is aiming for.
In the 4th inning, Akashi forcibly released a grounder on the second base without death, and when he made a third base with one death, Uebayashi’s timely infield hit gave him one goal. At the turn at bat in Yanagimachi, he set up a hit-and-run (the result was a successful stolen base). In the 8th inning, Takada succeeded in a hit-and-run with 1st base and 1st and 3rd base with a right front hit.
At this chance, Takada was invited to check and was caught, but Mimori pierced the gap and fell into the home base, resulting in a successful heavy robbery. He took one point to widen the lead. After the match, Director Fujimoto said, “I want to spread the idea that this team is playing baseball like this,” and showed the direction.
Director Fujimoto has been advocating baseball, “getting exactly one point when you can get it” from the time you took office. He has shown the importance of team batting on a case-by-case basis and has incorporated it into practice at the fall camp and also at this spring camp. Even in his first foreign match, the team policy was fully expressed, and the way of fighting “Fujimoto Hawks” was shown on the ground.
Director Fujimoto, who won the “first team” as a director and said, “I wanted to do a little more bunt …”. He makes full use of his tricks to get one point, and aims for a large number of points where the center pole is involved, such as Yanagida and Gracial. Such baseball is likely to become the “form” of this year’s Hawks.
(Yusuke Fukutani)
